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If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
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The happiness of life is made up of the little charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children—and what an inhuman world, without the aged.
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To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.
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For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us!
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge was a seminal figure in English literature, a poet, literary critic, and philosopher who played a crucial role in the development of Romanticism. Born in Ottery St Mary, Devon, in 1772, his poetic work, notably "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Kubla Khan", is celebrated for its vivid imagination and ethereal lyricism. Coleridge was also an influential literary critic, whose ideas on imagination and the relationship between the poet and nature shaped later literary theory. He collaborated with William Wordsworth on the publication "Lyrical Ballads", a landmark of Romanticism. His philosophical and theological reflections, though sometimes obscure, reveal a profound and inquisitive mind. His life was marked by health problems and opium addiction, which affected his productivity and stability. Samuel Taylor Coleridge passed away in 1834, leaving a lasting legacy in poetry and criticism.